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The evening of December 5th, 2008 produced perhaps the most spectacular sunset Seattle has ever seen. A heavy onshore flow produced multiple stacks of lenticular clouds over all of the big Cascade Volcanoes from Rainier at least as far south as Mount Hood (maybe over Glacier Peak too, but I couldn't see it). As the sun set, the sky exploded in the most vivid reds and pinks I have ever personally witnessed. The color you see in this image has not been manipulated at all, there has been no boost in the saturation or hues and there has been no adjustment of the white balance of the image. This is really what it looked like that evening.
The picture itself is a composite of two frames taken about half an hour apart. One exposure for the incredible color in the sky, and another to capture the buildings with the lights on in a dark enough setting that they would stand out against the background. Processed independently in Lightroom, merged in Photoshop.
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Bryan Swan 14 months ago | reply
I merged the two shots with the Photomerge tool. If you want to align two shots taken from the same spot, leave it set to Auto and just be sure to uncheck "Blend Images Together". Even shooting this with a tripod the two shots didn't align exactly as they were framed, they were off by about 4-5 pixels, hence the need for the automated alignment. I used basically a rudimentary Luminosity mask - nothing as extensive as what Tony Kuyper has been teaching - essentially just masking out all but the highlights of the shot with the lights on in the buildings, and then did some spot blending by hand. I'll probably re-process this one again in the not too distant future, I like what I've been able to do to the originals in Lightroom 4 to give the image a little more contrast in the darker areas and remove some of the washed out color in the clouds.
(James) AdamTaylor 13 months ago | reply
This is an incredible capture. amazing.
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JK> 5 weeks ago | reply
That was a great evening so many wonderful photo's.
I really like what you did here..
here's my little take that day...
